Title: This Is The Keyword-Rich, Attention-Grabbing Subtitle
Title: This Is The Keyword-Rich, Attention-Grabbing Subtitle
AU THOR N A M E
(publisher logo)
Your title page should match your cover, same fonts,
same basic layout, but no art.
This book formatting template was made by Derek Murphy of Creativindie Design; feel
free to edit and use for your publishing projects. Ive added in some tips just delete my
comments and add your own text. Credits or attribution is unnecessary, but if you want
to add Book Formatting by Derek Murphy @Creativindie or something like that on
your title page, you can.
TITLE
Copyright 2013 by Author Name.
All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be
used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the
case of brief quotations em- bodied in critical articles or reviews.
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organiza- tions, places,
events and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used
fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is
entirely coincidental.
For information contact :
(Address, website)
http://www.website.com
Book and Cover design by Designer
ISBN: 123456789
First Edition: Month 2015
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
CONTENTS
TITLE ..................................................................................................... I
CH APTER
O N E ...................................................................... 1
2 ......................................................................................................... 13
3 ..................................................... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
CHAPTER 4 ........................................................................................ 28
5 ......................................................................................................... 35
THIS COULD BE A SUBTITLE ............................................................. 35
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...................................................................... 43
ABOUT THE AUTHOR ........................................................................ 42
PS) Novels dont have to have a table of contents, and if you do use
one, you can right click and hit update fields after you add your
content. You should probably remove this TOC before you convert to
ebook though ereaders will use the chapter headings instead to
make a table of contents.
FONTS USED:
OptimusPrinceps
Free Serif
Aquiline
Open Sans
CHAPTER ONE
FIRSTLY, MAKE SURE YOU READ the free guide and watch
some of the videos on www.diybookformats.com. Youll also
need to download the fonts used in this template (Junicode, Roboto
and Steelfish). They are free for commercial use and I put links to
them on the Contents page. Once youve installed them, the
Word doc should look like the PDF file.
If you go to view and make sure the Navigation Pane is
selected, youll see the chapter headings and can navigate quickly.
Take a look at each chapter: Ive styled them all differently. Pick a
style you like and want to use. Then tweak the other chapters so
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they match. You can also create new styles to make it go faster.
In the Home >> Styles section, Ive already added some
common styles you can use. You can play with the style, change
the font, size, spacing, etc. and then right click and update style.
Then it will be easy to go through and highlight an element and
pick the style for that element.
Remember to use the Heading 1 style for chapter headings
so that they show up on the navigation plane (did you know you
can use the navigation plane to drag and drop whole sections of
your book around? Sweet, right?)
You can also change the fonts: my favorite free body fonts for
book design are Libre Baskerville, Linux Libertine, Junicode, Free
Serif and Crimson. But keep in mind it may be better to pay for a
pro font. My favorites are Minion Pro, Adobe Caslon Pro, Adobe
Garamond Pro and ITC New Baskerville.
Youll also want to change the chapter header font to match
your book cover title. The rookie mistake is to go big and get
distracted by all the cool fonts and decorations. Simple but
beautiful serif and sans serif fonts will look good for just about any
genre. You don't want interior fonts that clash with your book
cover design, but it's OK if your fonts don't match as long as you
keep things simple on the inside. Its usually better to find a simple
font with a slight style indicative of the genre, rather than
something crazy artistic and wild. Ive played with a lot of
different designs to show you whats possible, but special fonts,
2
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Making Ebooks
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These templates will convert easily to ebook formats; you can use
the free conversion tool I added to www.publishxpress.com.
Almost everything will look the same; images should be at least
1200px wide so they display on high-res ebook devices. Dropcaps
wont convert well, youll have to redo them in code (I added some
videos to DIY Book Formats on that).
Also the fonts wont be embedded, you would need to open
the epub in Sigil (free software for ebook editing), and add the
fonts in manually. There are videos about that on DIY Book
Formats as well. However, you want to keep the ebook super slim
and simple, so Id actually recommend getting rid of your drop
caps first, styling the first paragraph with no indent and the first
few words all-capped, and then just upload the file and use the
resulting ebooks as is. Most mainstream publishers use ultraminimal ebooks, because they want to make sure they will display
properly on all devices, and special stuff like fonts, dropcaps or
extra decorations can break or have display issues on some older
devices.
***
For section breaks, its usually best to stick with three asterixes.
You can experiment with different fonts and sizes to get them to
look good. Then start the next paragraph with a no-indent using the
First Paragraph style. If you want something fancier, look for a
font of webdings/glyphs that has an image you want, or find a little
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graphic to use. But again, I tend to find those more distracting than
enjoyable. You want to get out of the readers way so they can stay
in the story, not pull them out to look at your clever decorations.
Regarding fonts, you can generally get away with one serif,
one sans-serif for contrast, and one speciality font that fits your
genre and establishes the mood. I think drop caps and fancy
headings are pretty, but for most books its safer and often more
professional to use understated design, with lots of white spaced
and smaller fonts with more spacing between letters. A non-indent
on the first paragraph and all caps for the first few words is usually
the best way to start a new chapter.
Finally, the average page should have between 250 and 300
words on it; and your total book should be around 300 pages (a
nice length for most fiction not too thick or thin). You can play
with font size, line height and margins to try to stay within those
guidelines.
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For blockquotes like this, use the blockquote style. You can
mix up serif and SANS - SERIF fonts to great effect, just be
consistent.
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semper et. Nunc id massa venenatis magna ornare faucibus quis
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CHAPTER
4
Nice intro quote here Someone famous
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tellus. Donec hendrerit posuere placerat. Nulla facilisi. Cras non
orci at nisi rutrum sagittis ac congue dolor. Aliquam pellentesque
libero sed libero male- suada laoreet. In venenatis dignissim
sagittis. Mauris ligula elit, accum- san vel arcu et, dignissim
rutrum dolor. Praesent vehicula lacus nunc, sed feugiat ligula
semper et. Nunc id massa venenatis magna ornare faucibus quis
sit amet arcu. Nam hendrerit mauris vitae urna pharetra lacinia.
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sit amet. Nulla blandit neque sed nisi tempus pretium. Aenean
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elit. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed leo velit, semper sed magna
tristique, rhoncus vehicula velit. Ali- quam suscipit pulvinar risus
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Acknowledgments
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elit. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed leo velit, semper sed magna
tristique, rhoncus vehicula velit. Ali- quam suscipit pulvinar risus
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Its nice to have a final call to action like this in the back to drive
reviews. I would also add an optin offer, like download the next
book in the series for free!/ Get the quickstart guide to
implementing the tools in this book! A very simple 10 page PDF
can be a great optin offer for non-fiction. For fiction you can offer
future books, prequels or short stories. Also add an optin offer at
the front of the book; people who just Look Inside can still see
your offer and click the link, leading to more subscribers.
If this template was useful for you, why not share it with your writer
friends? You could even write a blog post about your book formatting
learning curve, and link to www.diybookformats.com so more
authors can get the free templates and tutorials.
Thanks and good luck!
Derek Murphy